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tomjennings

@tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org

I make things.

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sls, to random
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Please keep the Northern Lights photos coming!

They occur thanks to the Van Allen belts.

James Van Allen still roamed his eponymous bldg during my physics undergrad. He was the only person allowed to smoke in the building. Not an official rule, just selective enforcement.

Fun fact: Just after announcing their discovery, Van Allen and the US gov't discussed nuking them. https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2010/07/01/128170775/a-very-scary-light-show-exploding-h-bombs-in-space (U-S-A!!!!)

tomjennings,
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@jonny @sls

They DID nuke them. OPERATION ARGUS fired (on an incredibly haphazard way) nuke tipped rockets off a ship S. of the equator that caused aurora in northeast US. My father, commuting to work super early into Boston, saw inexplicable bright color lights on the sky. The news papered it over.

ARGUS was about it generating relativistic electrons up near/in the van Allen to disrupt "enemy" (sic) communications.

Theres a project film in the public domain (id bought the VHS tapes from the US in the late 80s, uploadedctp you tube back when there was a 10 minute limit) but likely buried now.

The film is dull, punctuated with terrifying hazing shipboard rituals and the most insane fiddling with nuke rockets I've ever seen (trying on fins to stabilize; one fell into the sea etc).

Macho is simply dangerous. We should regulate natural testosterone.

MLE_online, to random
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Here in America, there's basically just one hair removal tool that actually uses a real laser that you can buy for home use. And it costs $300.

I just looked on AliExpress, and they have ones for $20. Reviews say they work, and that you can tell because there's a burning hair smell.

I'm pretty tempted to try one.

tomjennings,
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@smellsofbikes @MLE_online

Wait til you see what chemicals are available. Often by the ton.

tomjennings, to random
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I had to go buy a bag of chicken food so I took the two knuckleheads, Disco and Devo. It's a short drive through Elysian Park, which has a 25mph that I generally stick to, half to piss off the speeding jerks who think of it as a high speed shortcut.

These kind of brief, arbitrary drives are totally joyous events for all of our dogs.

They partake of the Smell-O-Vision devices (vent windows) that in a car this old (1960) are LARGE and functional (A/C was exotic then) but also enjoy sitting in my lap (both of them) to rest their head on my shoulder with nose out my window. Possibly not legal... Safe enough.

Car is a 1960 Rambler American station wagon.

Cars without bench seats and vent windows are barbaric and oppressive. And dogs have difficulty navigating cup holders and consoles.

dogs behind the steering wheel, yes we're moving... Devo left, nose out with window, disco looking at the camera. orange instrument panel and novelty oversized steering wheel and chrome shift lever, the road beyond.

evacide, to random
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Everything about Durov's statement is so profoundly dishonest that I feel like engaging in a point-by-point debunking is a waste of time. If most of the messages on your platform are not end-to-end encrypted AT ALL, it is less private and secure than platforms whose messages are all e2e by default.

https://t.me/durov/274

tomjennings,
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@alshafei @evacide @ParadeGrotesque

It's all very simple: no traded-corp media is trustworthy. Simple as that.

tomjennings, to random
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Oh no! A review from a customer of 30 years ago!

A pleasant assessment of The Little Garden ISP from a customer POV. It skips over the parts where I/we would be up at 4am sitting in the dark in my underpants in front of a terminal solving panics but hey time wounds all heels or something.

https://blog.dshr.org/2024/04/the-little-garden.html

tomjennings, to random
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Seeing chickens operate a machine is frankly mind-blowing.

tomjennings,
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@LoneLocust

Harpsichord. How did you know!

A feeder that opens when they stand on a big paddle.

Chickens do not like mechanical things that move.

It's funny to watch, one puts a foot on slowly, watches it lift. Then steps up and eats. Then the rest arrive and pecking ensues (other chickens heads, pellets in the machine).

Can't video it, they all rush over to the fence when anyone is in sight.

ai6yr, to random

Realized I am not geeky enough to own a light saber or a Star Wars shirt. 🤔

tomjennings,
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@ai6yr

Remember in the movie BLADE RUNNER when Deckard keeps zooming into the photo and goes around a corner? I remember thinking "that's too much of a credibility reach." Oh well!

tomjennings, to random
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@liaizon

I signed up to Quiet, and see your post and a few others in # general but I'm unable to reply. Is it working for you?

I tried to read # offtopic, and got s thermometer saying "loading messages" but it never changes.

I can try rebooting phone or restarting app but it looks s bit rough.

tomjennings,
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@liaizon

Welp, apparently I uninstalled Quiet. I used "disable app" thinking I'd just stop it from using data until I got a chance to look at it.

Check out Briar Project. https://briarproject.org/

It works, nicely. Uses TOR also but can do direct phone to phone.

With one friend used it while I was in LA and he driving to the eclipse in TX. Worked great with signal, no signal, mobile and WiFi.

tomjennings,
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@liaizon

I worry too what Quiets "continuous liveness" requirement implies. Briar has no such issue. (Item 6 in "technical overview" on the tryquiet git page).

I suspect this is relying a persistent TOR connection to do their connectivity. That seems a bad idea.

MLE_online, to random
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Ceramics class!

I finished building my ring jug and I started on an abstract piece of pipes

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tomjennings,
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@MLE_online that's a great jug! Fill it full of o-rings!

tomjennings, to random
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Via Simon Penny...

50 Things Every AI Working with Humans Should Know
by Ken Liu

in Uncanny Magazine Issue Thirty-Seven | 1993 Words

https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/50-things-every-ai-working-with-humans-should-know/

ParadeGrotesque, (edited ) to random
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So, given the recent announcements by 'Mastodon' HQ, it seems like a forgeone conclusion that every posts ever made on the Fediverse will be used at some point as AI fodder.

If you have an account on mastodon.social, you should consider migrating to another server ASAP.

If you have an account on any other server, now is a good time to check the settings of your account through the web interface and make sure the option "Opt-out of search engine indexing" is checked.

Just in case.

tomjennings,
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@ParadeGrotesque

All posts in the fediverse are world readable so sure it's been used for ai training.

danderson, to random
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I think I may have a Voyager problem. It's at the point where all it takes is an offhand reference or small question, and I come around two hours later and there's 18 pages of text that I've apparently written.

tomjennings,
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@danderson

Small? Like larger is better? Lol children.

MLE_online, to random
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The hams are doing their morning fighting on the radio again.

"Wahhh, how come no one talks to me? ...

You're a piece of shit, Jimmy. When you look up sack of shit in the dictionary, there's a picture of you. You're ugly, worthless, you're just a sack of shit, Jimmy."

"At least he tries to be good though. Pat is a piece of shit, but he's not good at it. Jimmy really tries to be good at being a piece of shit."

tomjennings,
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@MLE_online

Are you sure you're not listening to a tunnel into 1970s Citizens Band?

I WAS THERE! KEJ1377, before CB calls were declared unconstitutional.

It was a circus, sometimes fun but 99% dicks. Like /b/ with sound effects.

liaizon, to random
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very tired of all these apolitical programmers in my feed

tomjennings,
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@liaizon

Apolitical programmers (and all workers) are right wing workers by default because money is right wing.

danderson, to random
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If you followed me for weird Voyager computer system facts, there will be none today :( No time, and it's looking increasingly likely that, to get the goods proper, I'll need to talk to the JPL archives and see how they might feel about getting a bunch of schematics from the Viking and Voyager collections cleared for publication. Which is going to require more homework to figure out what I need. And, frankly, "clearing for publication" doesn't sound like something quick and painless either.

tomjennings,
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@danderson

Maybe the Computer Museum folk could help out. Maybe they have some partial docs or something. They may have sufficient institutional mass to back you.

ai6yr, to california

LA Times: These are the California cities where $150,000 still buys you a home. Would you live here? "...For the last 30 years, Ann Epperly has lived in Trona, one of only nine California cities, towns and unincorporated areas tracked by Zillow with median home values under $150,000 in February 2024." https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-24/california-9-cities-where-150-000-can-buy-an-average-home

tomjennings,
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@ai6yr

I bought gas at that station last time I was through there, probably in the After Times.

tomjennings, to random
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Just got a USPS delivery item tracking page. Banner with generic links, some boilerplate, maybe 500 words of text.

3.7 megabytes.

Wtf is wrong with people.

tomjennings, to random
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The corporation is the worst idea humans have ever had and it will probably literally kill us.

Corporate growth is insanity and perfectly normal and I don't care that this view seems overly simplistic.

tomjennings,
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@vga256

Indeed!

Capitalists are all like "men dragging? Basksksks? LA LA LA LA LA LA LA I CANT HEAR YOU" That would never work! Liar!

Sigh. Yeah basque folk are a PITA in the right way to the right people.

One hopes shit's a-cookin' here in the US. Kids and labor just maybe...

tomjennings,
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@vga256

I think part of the problem is the class of people who can pull off a coop aren't hungry enough to maintain a coop; if you have the buy-in (class portability, marketable skills etc) if things get tough even momentarily people can and do just bail. But market and legal forces literally work against you. Push and pull. People who are hungry enough get undermined and put back in their place.

Look at the shit the basque had/have to push through. Narrow circumstance there.

MLE_online, to random
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I got tired of waiting for the new river park to open after years of delays, so I sneaked in and looked around

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tomjennings,
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@MLE_online

Cool. I'm up for that. Been meaning to gauge ride to Simon's. Kinda long.

LoneLocust, to cycling
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Tannus Armor: it’s so easy to install. We can print the entire instructions on the product.

[1] clean inside armor.
[2] insert inner tube into armor.
[3] insert armor into tire
[4] secure tire onto rim.
[5] inflate

I feel like they should finish that with the phrase, “Hey Presto“ and I think they’ve missed steps 3A and 4A, which are “cuss really loudly.”

tomjennings,
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@LoneLocust

I will testify to their badassedness.

I paid someone else to do the cussing and tool breaking.

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